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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 895, 896-OCT 17, 1940 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided further, That the entire Central Valley project, California, heretofore authorized and established under the provisions of the Emergency Relief Appropria- tion Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 115) and the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936 (49 Stat. 1622), is hereby reauthorized and Purposes declared, declared to be for the purposes of improving navigation, regulating the flow of the San Joaquin River and the Sacramento River, con- trolling floods, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for construction under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws of such distribution systems as the Secretary of the Interior deems necessary in connection with lands for which said stored waters are to be delivered, for the reclamation of arid and semi- arid lands and lands of Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation and sale of electric energy as a means of finan- cially aiding and assisting such undertakings, and in order to permit the full utilization of the works constructed to accomplish the afore- said purposes." 37 StaC. 63. SEC. 3. That the paragraph in section 1 of the River and Harbor Act, approved July 25, 1912, authorizing the removal of temporary obstruc- tions from tributaries of waterways under Federal improvement (37 Stat. L. 722), as amended in section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public 346Ut. 96 603 . work on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved July 3, 1930, is hereby amended to read as follows: Preliminary exai "The Chief of Engineers, in his discretion, and after approval by the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized to make preliminary examina- tions and minor surveys preliminary thereto and to remove snags and Removal of tempo- other temporary or readily removable obstructions from tributaries of rary obstructions from tributary watters waterways already under Federal improvement or in general use by navigation, or to make such minor improvements in any of the navi- gable waters of the United States as he may deem advisable in the interest of national defense, the cost thereof to be paid from funds appropriated for the maintenance and improvement of rivers and Proriso. harbors: Provided, That the cost of such work in any single year shall Cost limitation. not exceed $3,000 per tributary." Red River, Tex. and SEC. 4 . The project for the Denison Reservoir on Red River in Texas I)cnison RReservoir and Oklahoma, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved June prajet purpos de- 28, 1938, is hereby declared to be for the purpose of improving naviga- 62 Stat.1219. tion, regulating the flow of the Red River, controlling floods, and for other beneficial uses. Approved, October 17, 1940. [CHAPTER 896] October 17, 1940 AN ACT I[i. R. 9982] To amend section 4551 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and for other [Public, No. 869] purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the R. S .§ 4551,amend- United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4551 Shipment and dis- of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S . C., 1934 edition, Supp. V, charge ofseaen. title 46, sec. 643), is amended by the addition of a new subsection lettered (1), reading as follows: Master's report. "(1) The master of every vessel subject to the provisions of this section shall submit, over his signature, reports to the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation of the employment, discharge, or termination of services of every seaman not shipped or discharged Contents. before a shipping commissioner, which reports shall contain such of the following information as may be required by regulation of the [54 STAT. 1200

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